10 Dec
2007
10 Dec
'07
3:59 p.m.
"Adrian F. Clark" alien@essex.ac.uk wrote: [...]
The student concerned finds that he can't execute programs from his USB memory stick: the system isn't setting the execute bit upon compilation or honouring chmods. [...]
Has he checked the fstab or mount for "noexec" option? Given the target markets, I'd expect them to be shipped with that for USB sticks, but then the previously-mentioned root-shell doesn't make me very confident about it...
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